Czernowitz had no cockroaches! It had mice and rats.
That is why every household had a cat. And since anyone could have a
cat,
public buildings had to have a superior cat, a lion.
Some year ago I was in Sinaia Romania, at the king's summer palace.
Sitting outside was a man with a lion cub. Greatly astonished I asked:
"Un leu?" (a lion?) the man said "da" (yes)
I asked further: "cum se poate?" (how is it possible) he answered:
"In Romania tot se poate" (In Romania all is possible)
If that was so, during the rule of Ceaucescu, all the more so
during the rule of king Carol.
Mimi
On May 10, 2015, at 12:00 AM, Hardy Breier wrote:
> Why do we have so many lions in Czernowitz ?
> White lions, musical lions, toothless lions .
> How did it start ?
> It started with Schiller who wrote poems .
> And his poems spoke of old Greece of dragons
> And other vermin,
> He wrote one named Der Handschuh (the Glove)
> About arrogance and bravery :here goes-
> The Glove ( 1797)
> "Before his lion-court
> Impatient for the sport,
> King Francis sat one day;
> The peers of his realm sat around,
> And in balcony high from the ground
> Sat the ladies in beauteous array.
> And when with his finger he beckoned,
> The gate opened wide in a second
> And in, with deliberate tread,
> Enters a lion dread,
> And looks around
> Yet utters no sound;
> Then long he yawns
> And shakes his mane,
> And, stretching each limb,
> Down lies he again.
>
> This is how the lion became most famous in Czernowitz.
> Many houses had lions .
> So many lions would confuse anybody.
> The real most popular animal in Czernowitz was
> the cockroach but you don't sculpture cockroaches .
> (Here we call them Juk.)
>
> Hardy
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